GarageBand

Text Tutorials

• Getting Started with GarageBand - Apple's guide in pdf format

Video Tutorials

• GarageBand '09 Video Tutorials

Support

• Apple's GarageBand Support Site

Resouces

• Garage Band in the Elementary Classroom

Reasons for use

• Create your own music with built-in instruments, jingles, sound effects, and tracks
• Create your own podcasts with voice, music, jingles, sound effects and images
• Use the built-in piano to practice keyboarding, scales, and chords
• A different way to do a "report" or presentation
• Synthesizing information taught in class, read from the textbook, researched online, gathered personally, etc. in a different way
• Independent reading projects / book reports
• Present information with real world images and music to make it more relevant and authentic
• Digital storytelling

Examples

• Art, Literature, and Ideas Diptych podcast videos